Necessary nonsense : aesthetics, history, neurology, psychology /

This book explores the cognitive possibilities of nonsense, literary and philosophical, ranging from Immanuel Kant to Lewis Carol, from examinations of Asperger's Syndrome to the waking state, and demonstrates that there is an element of nonsense, or stage of nonsense, in the normal course of t...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Massey, Irving (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2018]
Series:	Cognitive approaches to culture.
Subjects:	Nonsense literature > History and criticism. Literature > Aesthetics. Literature > Psychology.